Yvonne Higgins

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Yvonne Higgins is Assistant Professor of Music Education in the School of Arts Education and Movement in the DCU Institute of Education. Prior to taking on this role she has had extensive experience at primary level. Since 1996 she has made an ongoing contribution to primary teacher music education and continuous professional development.
She is a graduate of St. Patrick’s College (B.Ed. and M.Ed.) and of the Zoltan Kodály Institute of Music Pedagogy in Kecskemét, Hungary (Grad.Dip.). She has a keen interest in choral conducting and has founded and directed school, community, and college choirs. 
In 2004 she was seconded to the Primary Curriculum Support Programme (PCSP) as a member of the Music and, later, the Arts Team facilitating the introduction of music in the revised Irish Primary Curriculum (1999) to Irish teachers. She was seconded to lecture in Music Education in Marino Institute of Education from 2009 to 2012.  

Her research investigates children’s engagement in musical thinking.  Her M.Ed. research investigated this through classroom composing.  Her current PhD research, which is supported by Music Generation, 
builds on this research into children’s musical thinking in classroom composing and on her choral practice. It draws together her extensive understanding of language literacy to investigate the development of a communicative, meaning-making approach to children’s music reading in choral settings. 

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2019 Higgins, Y. (2019) 'The Kodály Connection' In: Dublin : Carysfort Press.

Book

Year Publication
2007 Buckley, J., & Higgins, Y. (2007) The Right Note for 3rd and 4th Class. Dublin: Folens.

Conference Contribution

Year Publication
2019 Higgins, Y. (2019) 27th European Association for Music in Schools Conference 'The School I'd Like' / 7th European ISME Regional Conference Thinking in sound: Reading between the lines Malmö, Sweden, .
2016 Higgins, Y. (2016) International Society for Music Education 32nd World Conference Imaging sound from notation: Learning from theories of language reading Glasgow, .
2015 Higgins, Y. (2015) 23rd European Association of Music in Schools Conference 'Open Ears - Open Minds' / 5th ISME European Regional Conference Imaging sound from notation Rostock, Germany, .
2013 Flynn, P., Kerins, M., & Higgins, Y. (2013) Music Education Gathering Conference of the Society for Music Education in Ireland Symposium on Composing in education - Multiple perspectives St. Patrick's College of Education, Dublin, .
2015 Higgins, Y. (2015) Society for Music Education in Ireland 5th Annual Conference Meaningful music reading: Learning from theories of language reading Dublin, .
2014 Higgins, Y. (2014) Society for Music Education in Ireland 4th Annual Conference An rud a scríobhtar: Investigating children's musical thinking through their invented notations Cork, .
2012 Higgins, Y. (2012) Society for Music Education in Ireland 2nd Annual Conference The understanding of 'composing' in a selection of international curriculum documents Limerick, .
2011 Higgins, Y. (2011) Society for Music Education in Ireland Conference The composing process in primary classroom music: An investigation into its theory and practice. The intermediary stage Cork, .
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